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John Gilmore is a private individual who cares about archiving the Internet for future generations. He is the first individual to join the Archive-It program, as a partner with the Internet Archive, to collect and index documents of interest. Mr. Gilmore also co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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This is an archive of papers, notes, and source code written by Dennis M. Ritchie, co-creator of the UNIX computer operating system, and co-inventor of the C Programming Language. These were published on the World Wide Web while Dennis Ritchie was alive, and are archived here for preservation after the inevitable time when they disappear from the Web.

Drug Policy online archives. Due to their unfortunately illegal status, and the attitudes of governments, some of the best information about drugs is only available online. This archive collects information about drug policy from around the Internet.

A collection of free software and open source software. This includes the source code (instructions written by computer programmers) of thousands of computer programs that are part of various free software projects. These projects include the GNU Project to reimplement the Bell Labs UNIX system, the Linux kernel that reimplements the core operating program of a UNIX-like system, the Debian project which seeks to produce a fully free and consistent distribution (collection) of free software programs that work together well, the Ubuntu project which builds a commercially viable operating system based on the Debian project; the Fedore project which also builds a commercially viable computer operating system based on free software; and other projects.

Rights:
Most of this collection is licensed under copyright licenses that permit the public to use, read, copy, distribute, and modify the individual items. Read the individual copyright notices for specific rules for each item.

This is a collection of thousands of papers created by or related to William F. Friedman, founder of the National Security Agency and head of wartime military signals intelligence efforts during World War II. These were collated and scanned by the National Security Agency and there may be some documents redacted or otherwise suppressed. There are almost certainly many more such documents in the collection of the Virginia Military Institute's library, which is where Friedman willed his papers after he died.

A collection of documentes written by United States federal agencies, detailing how each agency will shut down its operations when its appropriated funding is exhausted. The documents cover physical security (e.g. of buildings), logistics, planning, and exceptions to the shutdown (such as for ongoing work in vital government functions). The documents include adescription of classified work (and agency work that supports classified work) in each department.

Add This is an archived copy of a collection of magazines about radio, television, and electronics. The magazines have been scanned in as PDF files. They include many magazines aimed at professional radio, television, and electronics engineers and station managers, as well as magazines aimed at the general public. The collection generally covers the years 1900-2000 or so.